Today’s FP&A practitioners are highly trained professionals with a greater ability to see the big picture, analyse and interpret data, and build predictive models. They are also experts in harnessing the power of information technology. They are able to create detailed cost and revenue databases that unlock patterns and trends in business behaviour and to build sophisticated and responsive forecasting models. We do rolling forecasts because we know they are better and because we can.
FP&A Insights
FP&A Insights is a collection of useful case studies from leading international companies and thought leadership insights from FP&A experts. We aim to help you keep track of the best practices in modern FP&A, recognise changes in the ever-evolving world of financial planning and analysis and be well equipped to deal with them.
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This edition of our digest brings you articles covering the soft skills of an FP&A professional, methods to improve your P&L statements and the reality behind an FP&A department’s role in problem solving and risk management. We will also share with you an amazing case study about FP&A transformation in Nielsen.
On 17 October 2019, I had the pleasure of facilitating, the 2nd Paris FP&A Board.
The world is becoming automated and robots are taking over. This is the narrative that has been around for a while and has been promoted as the future, but more than ever, the future is now, and we are seeing the automation of transactional and routine tasks at pace.